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Category: Newport

‘Ongoing improvement’ in handling of adoption allowance payments

Friday, January 31, 2025

Newport City Council is making “emerging and ongoing improvement” in its payment of adoption allowances to families.

Council unsure who will fund millions in extra National Insurance contributions

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Local authorities face ongoing uncertainty over who will fund increases to National Insurance contributions, councillors in Newport have heard.

Rethink library and community centre money-saving plans, Newport Council told

Thursday, January 30, 2025Thursday, January 30, 2025

Residents have less than a week left to have their say on Newport City Council’s draft budget proposals for 2025/26.

Police launch crackdown on lorry drivers using road as ‘cut-through’

Tuesday, January 28, 2025Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The operation follows concerns some drivers were illegally using the weight-restricted road, in Rogerstone and northern Newport, as a “cut-through”.

New scheme supports residents who may be ‘unaware’ they can claim financial support

Tuesday, January 28, 2025Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Newport Council has joined a pilot scheme using data to identify and contact households which could be eligible for unclaimed benefits.

City’s next mayor ‘deeply honoured’ by nomination

Monday, January 27, 2025Monday, January 27, 2025

Newport’s next mayor said she is “deeply honoured” to be chosen to serve in the role for 2025/26.

Senior police officer responds to ‘grooming gang’ concerns

Thursday, January 23, 2025Thursday, January 23, 2025

There is “nothing at this moment to suggest” so-called grooming gangs are “a particular concern in Newport”, according to a senior Gwent Police officer.

‘Some positive progress’ in tackling Newport’s empty properties

Thursday, January 23, 2025Thursday, January 23, 2025

Newport will not receive a share of the Welsh Government’s latest town centre regeneration funding, but the city council is “committed” to bringing empty properties back into use.

Gwent Police to lose ‘quite a significant number’ of PCSOs due to cuts

Thursday, January 23, 2025Thursday, January 23, 2025

Gwent Police will lose “quite a significant number” of police community support officers (PCSOs) because of funding cuts, a senior officer has warned.

Police told lorry drivers illegally using road as ‘cut through’

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Lorries and other large vehicles are flouting traffic rules banning them from the B4591 in Rogerstone and northern Newport, a city councillor has claimed.

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